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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Raphael Norwitz <raphael.norwitz@nutanix.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Prerna Saxena <prerna.saxena@nutanix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] Lift max memory slots limit imposed by vhost-user
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2020 07:07:46 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200225070027-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200209174335.GA15050@localhost.localdomain>

On Sun, Feb 09, 2020 at 12:43:35PM -0500, Raphael Norwitz wrote:
> > > The current feature implementation does not work with postcopy migration
> > > and cannot be enabled if the VHOST_USER_PROTOCOL_F_REPLY_ACK feature has
> > > also been negotiated.
> > 
> > Hmm what would it take to lift the restrictions?
> > conflicting features like this makes is very hard for users to make
> > an informed choice what to support.
> >
> 
> We would need a setup with a backend which supports these features (REPLY_ACK
> and postcopy migration). At first glance it looks like DPDK could work but
> I'm not sure how easy it will be to test postcopy migration with the resources
> we have.

Yes, DPDK works with postcopy. I understand it's of no
immediate interest to you but I'm afraid it just becomes too messy
if everyone keeps breaking it.
VHOST_USER_PROTOCOL_F_REPLY_ACK was added by a contributor from
nutanix, surely you can ping them internally for a test-case :).
 

-- 
MST



  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-02-25 12:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-16  2:57 [PATCH v2 0/3] vhost-user: Lift Max Ram Slots Limitation Raphael Norwitz
2020-01-16  2:57 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] Fixed assert in vhost_user_set_mem_table_postcopy Raphael Norwitz
2020-02-06  8:17   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-02-06  8:20     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-02-09 17:17       ` Raphael Norwitz
2020-01-16  2:57 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] Refactor vhost_user_set_mem_table functions Raphael Norwitz
2020-02-06  8:21   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-02-09 17:21     ` Raphael Norwitz
2020-01-16  2:57 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] Lift max memory slots limit imposed by vhost-user Raphael Norwitz
2020-02-06  8:32   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-02-09 17:43     ` Raphael Norwitz
2020-02-20  7:03       ` Raphael Norwitz
2020-02-25 12:07       ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2020-01-31 21:21 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] vhost-user: Lift Max Ram Slots Limitation Raphael Norwitz
2020-02-06  8:33 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-02-09 17:14   ` Raphael Norwitz
2020-02-10 16:04     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-02-19  5:33       ` Raphael Norwitz
2020-02-19 10:08         ` Michael S. Tsirkin

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